The ORBug Memorial

This page pays tribute to the found and squashed bugs of the ORLibrary. As is the case with any coding project, the ORLibrary has bugs and to give credit where credit is due, below is a list of bugs found by people other than myself, and the date that they were reported.

#	Module(s)	Description	Found By	Date (CST)
1	OREnglish	Joel Finkle	Default message for SHOW command. For example: >SHOW APPLE TO EVE The apple is unimpressed.	2/6/2002 9:10:00 AM
2	ORNPC_AskTellLearn	Joel Finkle	Added "provides" check for call to interacted routine.	2/6/2002 2:05:00 PM
3	ORLookRoom	Joel Finkle	Floating objects not displayed in remote room descriptions.	2/8/2002 2:53:00 PM
4	OREnglish	Joel Finkle	Certain score-related messages contained undesired linefeeds.	2/12/2002 12:32:00 PM
5	OREnglish	Joel Finkle	Located game blow up at the "You find nothing of interest." message.	2/13/2002 3:14:00 PM
6	OREnglish	Mark Simmons	Problem with the standard "You don't need to refer to that" message.	2/18/2002 8:26:00 PM
7	ORNPC_movement	Mark Simmons	Messages like... "Gemma is1 not following anything." Changed to... "Gemma is not following anything."	2/20/2002 2:21:00 AM
8	OREnglish	Mark Simmons	Messages like... "Gemma dos not suppose the plants would care for that." Changed to... "Gemma does not suppose the plants would care for that."	2/20/2002 2:21:00 AM
9	ORPronoun	Mark Simmons	Messages like... "You can not follow Gemma. She have not gone anywhere." Changed to... "You cannot follow Gemma. She has not gone anywhere."	2/20/2002 2:21:00 AM
10	ORPronoun	Sean Turner	Blow up when passing a -1 to the vrb() routine to force plural mode without the use of an actual plural object.	3/11/2002 12:30:00 AM
11	ORLookRoom	Sean Turner	Fixed the "What lies in that direction..." message.	3/11/2002 12:30:00 AM
12	OREnglish	Derek Feddon	Avoid "Too many nested includes" error in GLULX mode.	3/11/2002 11:45:00 PM
13	ORMenu	Scott Hardwick	Missing autodependancy code.	3/27/2002 12:26:00 AM
14	OREnglish	Scott Hardwick	Fixed text with the places and objects commands.	4/1/2002 10:59:00 AM
15	ORNPC_DoVerb, ORNPCVerb	Stephen Robert Norris	Before Rules not being called by NPC actions.	5/8/2002 12:15:00 AM
16	ORNPC_DoVerb	Stephen Robert Norris	Bad orders to an NPC cause run-time errors, such as: BOB, GO NROTH	5/8/2002 12:34:00 AM
19	ORLiquid	Stephen Robert Norris	Various message issues with the ORLiquid module (such as messages displaying when the player is nowhere to be found). Also, Stephen noticed a bit of "cough" test code that wasn't removed after development.	5/11/2002 12:14:00 AM
20	ORFirstThoughts	Stephen Robert Norris	Default message was never being printed if no description was defined.	5/11/2002 12:32:00 AM
21	ORNPC_Movement	Stephen Robert Norris	Located errors introduced by a previous mass removal of .h extensions. (self.handle_end_of_path and actor.halt became selfandle_end_of_path and actoralt respectively.)	5/12/2002 7:14:00 AM
22	OREnglish	Stephen Robert Norris	Missing (ig) in Push message.	5/12/2002 7:14:00 AM
23	ORParseNoun	Stephen Robert Norris	The wn variable was not being saved and restored.	5/13/2002 7:03:00 PM
24	ORChooseObjects	Stephen Robert Norris	Incorrect values being returned.	5/13/2002 7:03:00 PM
25	ORNPCAction	Stephen Robert Norris	Found endless recursion in orders routine when ordering around an NPC.	5/22/2002 1:55:00 AM
26	ORAdjective	Jayzee	Autodependancy bug which caused noun matching issues.	7/20/2002 12:00:00 AM
27	ORNPC	Jayzee	Jayzee noticed that ORNPC causes problems when a player enters a floating object.	8/19/2002 12:00:00 AM
28	ORNPC_AskTellLearn	Jayzee	Lack of sufficient auto-dependancies causes compiler blowup.	8/19/2002 12:00:00 AM
29	ORNPC_AskTellLearn, ORKnowledgeTopic	Axel Tölke	Axel located a bug that prevented the "Answer" form of Topic conversations from working. Thanks Axel!	1/18/2003 12:00:00 AM
30	ORParser	Axel Tölke	Missing debug "line." from ParserParseToken routine. This error occured only in debug mode.	1/19/2003 12:00:00 AM
31	ORNPCVerb	Howard Sherman	Bad representation of NPC wanderings from the up and down directions (e.g.: "Dan entered from the up.")	2/28/2003 12:00:00 AM
32	ORCenter	Howard Sherman	Modifications to support GLULX hamper compiling to Z-Code.	6/30/2003 12:00:00 AM
33	ORSeveral	Scott Hardwick	The 6.3 compilier generates several of the new "Property name in expression is not qualified by object" warning messages.	1/17/2004 12:00:00 AM
35	ORStyleHint	Scott Hardwick	ORStyleHint (Glulx only) still tries to compile in Z-code mode.	1/17/2004 12:00:00 AM
36	ORWriteAfterEntry	Scott Hardwick	Error in conversion caused module to not compile.	1/17/2004 12:00:00 AM
37	ORJustEnoughGlulx	Scott Hardwick	Errors in ORJustEnoughGlulx caused by combination of ORLibrary inclusion order and 6.3 enhancments to Z-machine.	1/18/2004 12:00:00 AM
38	OREnglish & ORParser	Scott Hardwick	Missed support in OREnglish and ORParser for new commenting feature of 6.3	1/18/2004 12:00:00 AM
39	ORPronoun	Kef Li	Kef found a bug which occurs only before player's first turn when the developer assigns the player variable.	1/21/2004 12:00:00 AM
40	ORNPC	Kef Li	Another occurance of the previous bug Kef found.	1/28/2004 12:00:00 AM
41	ORSupporterContainer	Sean Turner	Opening objects that are both containers and supporters, that have nothing in them, but something on them, produced messages like :"You open the desk revealing ."	2/23/2004 11:41:00 PM
42	OREnglish	Fredrik Ramsberg	Found the line "it's former self" which should have been: "its former self"	4/7/2004 12:00:00 AM
43	OREnglish	Paul Jack	The #include directives specified the files in uppercase, which the filenames are not. Although this did not cause problems on case-insensitive platforms such as Windows, it did on Linux.	5/24/2004 12:00:00 AM
44	OREnglish	Paul Jack	An open bracket was missing in OREnglish, causing messages such as: "Which do you mean, your dresser or Ray's dresser?]"	6/8/2004 12:00:00 AM
45	ORAdjective	Ryan Weisenberger	ORAdjective interferred with "TAKE ALL" commands.	7/5/2004 12:00:00 AM
46	ORAdjective	Ryan Weisenberger	Ryan found another problem with ORAdjective and "take all" in that referring to an object first gives its preference in the "Take All".	7/6/2004 12:00:00 AM
48	ORNPC_DoVerb	Half	Half located a bug in ORNPC_DoVerb where the interuption routines (i.e.: before, after, react_before, and react_after) print messages even when the npc is not in scope.	8/10/2004 12:00:00 AM
49	ORDynaString	Michael Roy	Michael found a problem which prevented the substring method from working correctly.	1/5/2005 12:00:00 AM
50	ORKnowledgeTopic	Clinton Arbaugh	Clinton found specific cases where similarly named topics were not distinguished by their differing contexts. Specifically, "Tell [TOPIC] to [NPC]" might produce the wrong topic, because the scope routine was not able to test the context of the topic against an undetermined NPC.	10/30/2005 12:00:00 AM